A one-day protest of income tax rules by airline, railroad, bus and other workers left roads and transportation terminals empty.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 22:45

JERUSALEM (AP)  Ten-man Belgium held on to beat Israel 1-0 in a 2016 European Championship qualifier on Tuesday after Marouane Fellaini scored an early goal and captain Vincent Kompany was sent off midway through the second half.

MEXICO CITY (AP)  Mexico`s federal police say they have arrested one of the men suspected in the 2010 slaying of 72 migrants by a drug cartel.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 19:33

Catalan nationalist parties and associations have signed a road map to secede from Spain in 2017 if independence movements win a September regional vote. The election will `serve as a legal mechanism to determine the Catalan people`s will`, two main Catalan nationalist parties and several associations said in an agreement published Monday. Nationalist leaders in the wealthy region of northeastern Spain have called the snap regional vote for September 27 after Madrid blocked their bid for a referendum on independence. It will be the third regional election in Catalonia since 2010.

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed Uganda`s lead prosecutor in the 2010 bombings that killed 76 people who were watching the World Cup finals.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 16:09

A key trial in Uganda of 13 men accused of taking part in Al-Shebab bombings that killed 76 people in 2010 was postponed Tuesday after the top prosecutor was shot dead. Police on Tuesday vowed to catch the killers of Joan Kagezi, acting assistant director of public prosecution, who was murdered by men on a motorbike as she drove home with three of her children on Monday evening. She was shot twice through the window of her car after stopping to buy fruit on the side of the road in a suburb of the capital Kampala. `We call upon any member of the public who may have any information relating to the murder of Joan to give it to the police,` Uganda`s police chief Kale Kayihura said in a statement.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 00:12

Monday, March 30, 2015 23:36

Mike Whan has received a six-year contract extension to remain as LPGA commissioner that will keep him in the position through 2020, the tour`s board of directors announced Tuesday. Since arriving in 2010 to a women`s golf tour that had lost several tournaments and key sponsors, Whan has guided a rebound that has seen the LPGA grow from 23 events and $40 million in prize money to more than $60 million in prize money and 33 events. `While we are certainly pleased with the growth we`ve experienced over the last five years, I firmly believe we are poised for even greater success,` board of directors chair Mike Trager said. `Over the course of the LPGA`s history, we have certainly experienced wonderful periods of growth.